Article

McWhirter, PR and Lam, MC (2021) Time-resolved Low-resolution Spectra of BLAP-009 and BLAP-014. Research Notes of the American Astronomical Association RN AAS, 5 (6). ISSN 2515-5172

Lam, MC, Smith, RJ, Veitch-Michaelis, J, Steele, IA and McWhirter, PR (2021) An update on the development of ASPIRED. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 532. pp. 537-540. ISSN 1050-3390

McWhirter, PR, Lam, MC and Steele, IA (2020) Confirmation of Monoperiodicity Above 20 Seconds for Two Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496 (2). pp. 1105-1114. ISSN 0035-8711

Burke, C, McWhirter, PR, Veitch-Michaelis, J, McAree, O, Pointon, HAG, Wich, SA and Longmore, SN (2019) Requirements and Limitations of Thermal Drones for Effective Search and Rescue in Marine and Coastal Areas. Drones, 3/4. ISSN 2504-446X

McWhirter, PR, Hussain, A, Al-Jumeily, D, Steele, IA and Vellasco, M (2019) Classifying Periodic Astrophysical Phenomena from non-survey optimized variable-cadence observational data. Expert Systems with Applications. ISSN 0957-4174

Spaan, D, Burke, C, McAree, O, Aureli, F, Rangel-Rivera, C, Hutschenreiter, A, Longmore, SN, McWhirter, PR and Wich, SA (2019) Thermal Infrared Imaging from Drones Offers a Major Advance for Spider Monkey Surveys. Drones, 3 (2). ISSN 2504-446X

McWhirter, PR, Hussain, A, Steele, IA, Al-Jumeily, D and Vellasco, M (2018) GRAPE: Genetic Routine for Astronomical Period Estimation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479 (4). pp. 5196-5213. ISSN 1365-2966

Kifayat, K, Shi, Q, Askwith, RJ and McWhirter, PR (2018) SQL Injection Attack Classification through the Feature Extraction of SQL Query strings using a Gap-Weighted String Subsequence Kernel. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 40. pp. 199-216. ISSN 2214-2126

Conference or Workshop Item

McWhirter, PR, Steele, IA, Al-Jumeily, D and Hussain, A (2017) The Classification of Periodic Light Curves from non-survey optimized observational data through Automated Extraction of Phase-based Visual Features. In: Neural Networks (IJCNN) . (2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017), 14 May 2017 - 19 May 2017, Anchorage, Alaska, USA).

McWhirter, PR, Wright, S, Steele, IA, Al-Jumeily, D, Hussain, A and Fergus, P (2016) A Dynamic, Modular Intelligent-Agent framework for Astronomical Light Curve Analysis and Classification. In: Intelligent Computing Theories and Application: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , 9771. pp. 820-831. (2016 International Conference on Intelligent Computation, 02 August 2016 - 05 August 2016, Lanzhou,China).

Thesis

McWhirter, PR (2018) An Automated Pipeline for Variability Detection and Classification for the Small Telescopes Installed at the Liverpool Telescope. Doctoral thesis, Liverpool John Moores University.